Places to Visit

The Museum of Rural Life of Graciosa Island is part of a complex that includes the recreation of a house of a former rural owner.      

Empreendimento de enoturismo com espaço museológico, visita guiada e provas gastronómicas.

Small museum in the parish of Candelária, it allows visitors to see all typical agricultural implements from bygone times.

Situated in a former Franciscan convent of the seventeenth century. Here you can find yourself a bit of everything from cars to ceramics, through weapons, medals, coins, navigational instruments, sculptures, paintings, furniture and porcelain, etc.. Besides the museum, the monastery also houses the church of St. Francis, known as the Church of Our Lady of Guia, which is a beautiful example of religious architecture of the eighteenth century, boasting magnificent woodwork or ceilings, whether in altarpieces and altar . Also decorate the church statues and sculptures and tile panels only. 

Museum that showcases a vast collection of local ethnography donated by João Bosco Mota Amaral, all of which provided by emigrants and the authorities of the host countries. Located in the old Fish Market of Ribeira Grande.

A museum that preserves all the machinery used in whaling.    

Visits booking at the Graciosa Museum.

House built in 2006, it alludes to the typical families of this island in order to preserve the memories and living experiences of the families of São João.

This house is located in a 16th century residential complex, representing a typical rural house comprising all the facilities existing at the time.

A museum that preserves all the machinery used in whaling, an active industry until the end of the twentieth century.

This museum has a complete duly documented collection covering three buildings: the Franciscan Convent São Boaventura, the Museum-House Pimentel de Mesquita and Fábrica da Baleia (Whale Factory).

 Is the only windmill that can be visited on the island. Consisting of a high base in the form of a cone made out of stone, rendered and whitewashed with a semi-ovoid cupola ending in a point set on a circular raised base. The windmill are constructed on two floors connected by an inner staircase and a powerful mechanism driven by flour timber bars covered with cloth sails.     

Visitors bookings at the Graciosa Museum.

Housed in a former cereal and wine warehouse, this museum recreates ethnographical and cultural characteristics of Graciosa. Apart from reproducing a typical island house with all its elements, the museum has also a wine cellar (press rooms), agricultural utensils and several instruments related to traditional crafts, such as cooperage, cabinet work and pottery. In the garden attached to the building, you will find a cannon exhibit, presenting the cannons used in the several island fortresses, but most of them have already vanished. The main museum has two other museum centres: one of them depicting whale hunting activity, housed in an ancient hut of whale hunting canoes, and another one set in a typical island mill, located in Fontes.